It Might Get Loud

I recently picked up a documentary about the electric guitar called It Might Get Loud. It features Jimmy Page, the Edge, and Jack White. It is something i would highly recommend to anyone ineterested in any of these artists. They talk about how they began playing the guitar and how they go about writing songs and the like.
On a subjective note, my opinion is that this documentary somewhat exposed the hollowness and lack of talent of some of todays artists. We get to watch Jack White build a guitar with a hammer, nails, some wood, a string, and an old electric pickup. We see him write and record a song live, on camera, completely off the cuff. He explains that really creative artists dont need fancy equipment, but passion and talent. He suggests that musicians not linger for weeks overthinking minute details. We then see the Edge endlessly fiddling with knobs on a hundred thousand dollars worth of equipment over and over again without ever really playing anything on the guitar. He goes on to explain how he will sit there for hours and hours fiddling with knobs to get his intended "sound." He even plays a riff and explains how there is really no skill in what he is playing, but he has lots and lots of effects which make his guitar sound cool. In my opinion, Jack White and the Edge are good examples of a truly creative and talented musician and a "musician" who relies on expensive equipment in place of talent, respectively. Jimmy Page clearly falls into the former category, and almost brung tears to my eyes as he calmly blew my flippin mind.